Backend Engineer

Nikhil Shirdhankar

Backend engineer with 3+ years building production systems — real-time data pipelines,
and production-grade APIs since 2015. Based in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra.

Jan 2026
Ongoing
Remote
Active
Backend Intern
AAIT
  • Built backend logic for Pharma Gen using FastAPI — core API design and data processing workflows.
  • Developed and integrated REST endpoints for the HR project supporting human resource operations.
Feb 2022
Ongoing
Ratnagiri
Active
Software Engineer – Backend
Pleximus
  • Maintain a Go-based web application enabling real-time communication with industrial data loggers and scanning devices in production environments.
  • Design and develop high-performance REST APIs using FastAPI, Django, and Flask; manage Linux-based DigitalOcean servers and database provisioning.
  • Optimized backend services and built scalable web scraping systems using Playwright, Scrapy, and BeautifulSoup for large-scale data extraction.
  • Design and implement Power Apps solutions and automated workflows via Power Automate, reducing manual operational effort.
  • Develop and deploy smart contracts on the Ethereum mainnet using Brownie.
Aug 2015
May 2018
Ratnagiri
.NET Developer
Perfect Computers
  • Taught web development using C# and .NET to undergraduate and diploma students, improving technical proficiency.
  • Mentored students through hands-on projects building functional web applications.
Language
Go
Language
Python
Framework
FastAPI
Framework
Django
Framework
Flask
Databases
PostgreSQL
Databases
MySQL
Scraping
Playwright
Scraping
Scrapy
Scraping
BeautifulSoup
Infra
DigitalOcean / Linux
Web3
Ethereum / Brownie
Automation
Power Apps
Automation
Power Automate
Domain
Distributed Systems
Domain
Data Pipelines
Automated Large-Scale Data Pipelines
Designed and implemented a scalable web scraping infrastructure that automated large-volume data collection — replacing manual processes with a production-grade distributed system.
Real-Time Industrial Production System
Engineered and maintained a Go-based platform enabling live communication with industrial data loggers and scanning devices — running reliably in production environments at scale.
Award · 2023, 2025
Innovation Trailblazer Award
Pleximus
Award · 2024
Promising Pathfinders – Trailblazers of Tomorrow
Pleximus
Certification · IIT Roorkee
Executive Post Graduate Certification in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
iHUB DivyaSampark, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee · via Intellipaat

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